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Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis “. . .instead of following Eckhard Tolle’s advice and living in and for the moment, we found ourselves traveling back in time to other May Days. It was not a longing for the past; we were simply reminiscing, reliving sweetness and fun.” Diana Farr Louis [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—Did you know that one in eleven residents of greater Athens visits a soup kitchen daily? That’s about 400,000 people, a figure unthinkable a year ago. And after the tragic events that accompanied the Greek Parliament’s vote on the night of 12 February [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge  by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/12/12—There is nothing like a country house to keep you focused on the present. Especially a summer house on a Greek island which you haven’t visited since late November. Three months must be the maximum amount of time we’ve ever allowed to elapse [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/27/12—Cucina povera, the Italian expression meaning the Cuisine of the Poor, is starting to have a new ring to it here in Greece. In times of plenty—in other words, yesterday—it meant the inspired cooking of times gone by, when meat was scarce, eggs [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/13/12—With the horrific photos of the gleaming cruise ship keeling over within spitting distance of the Italian shore, my thoughts naturally turned to my own voyage on a Costa line ship. Mine was no near-Titanic experience, nor did I travel in great luxury. [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Like the other dilapidated houses on the block next to the train tracks, the Klimaka shelter for the homeless is covered with bold graffiti. They practically blot out its tomato-red façade and certainly distract attention from the name on its open door. I [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/16/12—The plan should have been foolproof. We’d set out in separate cars, but the destination seemed straightforward enough. We’d meet at the ancient site of Amphiaraion, a center of healing like Epidaurus, though on a miniature scale, and then move on to a [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis  ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/2/12—Two days after Christmas, we went to a christening in a sweet little church just outside Athens. The ceremony unfolded the way it’s meant to: the priest was benignly pious, the baby howled when dunked in the font, the parents beamed throughout, and [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—Crises bring up memories of other crises, and this country has had more than its share in the past hundred years: world wars, Balkan wars, a civil war, dictatorships, and financial upheavals. But there have also been times of relative calm and prosperity, [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis KIFISSIA Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/5/2011—Well, it isn’t really the season to be jolly, not quite, and yet bright lights are already twirled like beaded snakes round all the lamp posts on my street, and twinkling Christmas messages arch over every block. The electrical appliances shop at the [...]